Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-29
NEWS AND NOTES.

Missouri now has 5l06 miles of railroad
said to have cost S203 100000.
The gas wells at Fort Scott struck at a
depth of about 900 feet are said 10 equal the
best gas wells in the east
Among the things cheapened by dishon-
est tricks is SKINNED" oil of peppermint, by
which is meant the oil deprived of its men
thol
Scott Barr, CAL, has the tallest post
master IN the United States. He stands over
seven feet in his stockings and weighs go
pounds.
Kansas City real estate transfers last
week amounted to nearly 81 100000. and permits
were Issued for the erection of buildings to cost
over 100000.
An English surgeon says that people
who use rocking chairs the most get deaf the
soonest. L Cking also hurts the eyes and
makes people near sighted.
George w. Childs has an income of
$1,000 day, and friend who once saw his ac-
count book SAYS 1t showed that in one mon h of
thirty days the philanthrOpist gave away $2S,-
COO for charity.
John A. Pearson of Indianapolis has a
sill ser dollar of tne 1904 coinage for which John
T. Raymond once offered him $500. He has re-
ceive other very lattering offers for the coin,
which is now very rare.
The worlds smelted copper production
in 1886 was 2l0 900 tons, of which the Lake Su
periOr region of the United States fGrni- he'd
50, 600 tons; Montana, 25 600; Arizona AMI other
lOcsities, 10000; Spain $4,000; Chill, 81 000 and
England, 3OO0
An inventor in Auburn, Me-, who says
that he has worked $50 days of ten hours each
IN the last two years and very few of them on
SUNDAYS attributes his endurance largely to the
fact that he eats but One-meal in twenty four
hours, and that very simple.
Amanda Eubanks of Rome, Ca, is. the
richest colOred woman in the United States
:. q h of phrty-
which she inherited from her father, white
IN. Mrs. James Thomas of ST. Louis, I'd an
other wealthy negress being assessed on prop
erty to the amount of $3OOO0O.
Mrs. Mary Savage of Greenwood,
Mass, has a daughter, granddaughter, great
granddaughter and great reat-grandaughter
al residing in Norway, Me 1t is an unbr6keu
line of females of five generations. Their ages
are as follows: First, eighty four; secbnd,
fifty six; third, thirty six; fourth, seventeen;
fifth, eight months.
The projected convention Of hotel men
in Washington during the month of May has
grown into unlocked for proportions, and 1T Is
now estimated that at least 1000 people WIFI be
in attendance. AS the national drill will lie in
progress at the same time, the local hotel
keepers Will be considerably embarrassed to
accommodate their customers and their Invited
Motel Keeping guests,
Washington Territory Indians, when
they find drove of deer in the woods take a
lot of well-wGrn blankets an fasten theIl at
short intervals on The bushes until long line
is thus decorated. Then they surround the
eer, driving them toward the bushes, land
when the frightene animals smell the blankets
they run along the line, ret using to pass it, and
are then shot down easily.
George Miller, a German piano maker,
who came to this country two years ago, and
has been working lately in New York SIS a
bartender, killed himself on the 22d inst. i'm
very eXtraordi cary and painstaking mariner
He slsshed both his wrists with a sharp khife,
and then plunged the weapon twice into his
breast in the region of the heart. He was
slowly dying from the loss of blood, but toE ex
pc lite matters he climbed ladder ru aning
outside thu building, and on reaching the
second story threw himself into the yard.
The fall caused a fracture of the skull and
instant death.